Critical analysis and mapping of research trends and impact assessment of polyaromatic hydrocarbon accumulation in leaves: let history tell the future

Abstract

The article is basically an attempt to provide a consolidated report on impact assessment and trends in research pertaining to accumulation and curbing the menace of polyaromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) accumulation in leaves. Emphasis is given to understand the consequences of the fact that edible/medicinal plants cultivated in PAH contaminated soil or close to such places which are potential liberators of PAHs can virtually act as transporters for direct PAH entry into biological systems. An attempt has been made to predict the future by digging out golden facts from history. Extensive Scopus-based data mining has been done to dig out research data since last 10 years (2006-2016) pertaining to the said area. Critical analysis of statistical data on research trends highlighting the different aspects of evaluation of PAH accumulation in leaves has been described. The concentrate of all researches for the said period have been presented as few golden principles which shall serve as important facts for researchers and policy makers for curbing the menace of PAH-induced oxidative stress in plants and shall also provide start-up ideas for researchers new to the area. Critical analysis of trends in phytoremediation aspect has also been duly highlighted to measure the intensity of restoration steps taken by researchers and government to safeguard the future generations.

Accumulation pattern of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using Plantago lanceolata L. as passive biomonitor

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Phenanthrene-Induced Cytochrome P450 Genes and Phenanthrene Tolerance Associated with Arabidopsis thaliana CYP75B1 Gene

“…As the functional analysis of the CYP75B1 gene does not show metabolization of phenanthrene or 9-phenanthrenol, and phenanthrene has shown to provoke oxidative stress in plants and antioxidant mechanisms have been described as an important part of the tolerance response to phenanthrene [55][56][57], we have explored reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in cyp75b1 mutants in response to phenanthrene. ROS detections have been carried out on 3-week-old wild-type and cyp75b1 A. thaliana plantlets exposed or not to 50 µM phenanthrene.…”

A status report with critical analysis of research trends in exploring medicinal plants as antiviral: Let us dig into the history to predict the future

“…A 5-year span from 2015 to 2019 was used for data collection followed by critical analysis. Data mining from Scopus offers several advantages when compared to other several scientific databases, which have been very well exemplified by the authors in their previous publications, which are based on similar data mining projects from Scopus followed by critical analysis (Chouhan, Tandey, Sen, Mehta, & Mandal, 2019;Mandal et al, 2018;Mandal & Tandey, 2016). All crude data extracted from Scopus were manually sorted and only those articles that had any relevance with medicinal plants including marine plants were included in the final qualified list of articles.…”